About ICJIS

Integrated Criminal Justice Information System (ICJIS) applications and infrastructure are used to exchange hundreds of millions of electronic transactions every year, most in a real time environment. With the exception of some internal applications, ICJIS does not store data within its infrastructure.

Please spend a few moments and review our pages to learn more about how ICJIS assists stakeholders by creating, maintaining and innovating state of the art electronic data exchanges and internal applications.

Staff

From 2000 to the present, ICJIS has had as few as 4 and as many as 25 staff members, and an annual budget ranging from 1.6 to 8 million dollars, depending on the level of new development and maintenance involved. Currently, there are 5 staff with a budget of 1.7 million dollars serving ICJIS stakeholders.

Governance

The Governance of ICJIS has evolved over time and currently has the following:

Business Team
- reports to Executive Committee for planning and priorities. Typical
members are an Administrator, a Chief Deputy, or IT Director. This group
meets monthly.

Executive Committee - highest
level group that sets policy, direction and budget. Typical members are
Presiding Judge, Sheriff, County Attorney, and Clerk of the Court,
Public Defender, and County Manager. This group meets quarterly.

Technical Group (JaLET)
- reports to Business Team for technology, security and project
management. Typical members are IT Managers, Security Officers,
Application and Infrastructure Managers. This group meets biweekly.

History

ICJIS is a Maricopa County
department, formed in 2000 as a result of passage of Propositions 400
and 401 in 1998. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors urged voters
to "adopt the propositions as vital public safety measures." The
propositions generated a one-fifth of a cent sales tax to be used over
seven years for:

Financing construction of new adult and juvenile facilities

Funding
the implementation and integration of criminal justice information
systems for the purpose of reducing the expense of adult and juvenile
jail facilities

Mandated Mission

Therefore, the
mandated mission of ICJIS is to facilitate the integration of disparate
information systems among Maricopa County criminal justice departments,
for the purpose of reducing expenses resulting from non-integrated
criminal justice systems. At the time, non-integrated system expenses
included:

Criminal Justice departments not sharing data of common interest

Difficulties in planning and assessing the effectiveness of criminal justice programs due to the lack of comprehensive data

Duplicate and redundant data entry and data collection

Failure to use a unique common identifier for incidents and offenders

Incomplete and untimely data collection using paper based processes

Inconsistencies between paper files and computer databases within and between agencies